Both articles reposted from Act for Freedom Now!
March 3rd 2016
In the end the judges and prosecutor in the 2nd trial of the R.S. implemented the orders they received from the anti-terrorist force with excess zeal.
Nikos Maziotis was sentenced to life plus 129 years as well as a 20.000 euro fine.
Pola Roupa was sentenced to 11 years for various misdemeanors (she will tried for the felonies when and if she is caught).
Adonis Staboulos was sentenced to 13 years.
Giorgos Petrakakos was sentenced to 36 years as well as 9.000 euro fine.
Greece: Post-sentencing statement of Nikos Maziotis, of Revolutionary Struggle
Translated by Act for freedom now!
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Order has been restored. The lenders, the EU, the ECB, the IMF, the USA, the transnational economic elite, the ranks of the “institutions” can now rest easy that their puppets, the greek judges, using me as an example sentenced me to life because I blew up the building of the Bank of Greece -a branch of the European Central Bank- where the office of the representative of the IMF is also. The leftist government of Syriza, which is so sensitive in matters of “terrorism” can also rest easy because it made guarantees to the lenders that the memorandum programs can continue to be seamlessly enforced when the internal enemy is being oppressed with the “necessary strictness”.
As an anarchist, when I made the choice of armed revolutionary action, I knew the price of this choice could be a heavy conviction or even death in a clash with the police just like when it almost happened at Monastiraki in July 2014 or like when it did happen in Dafni on March 10th 2010 when the member of the Revolutionary Struggle, comrade Lambros Foundas, was killed. But the price of the struggle and my choices never scared me, not even now with the decision of the judges of the 2nd trial of the R.S. who sentenced me to life plus 129 years. It was something that I expected as a possibility from judges that
showed their intentions from the start. When the enemy shows such fury, it honors me specially because it proves how correct my choices are, the correctness of fighting opting to use weapons against a criminal regime that robs and has left hecatombs of dead people.
The life sentence for the bombing against the supervision directorate of the Bank of Greece, an act with a warning call, with no injuries but only with material damages, proves the fury of the servants of the state and the puppets of the transnational elite because we did not surrender, we did not go back to prison after our arrests in 2010 and our release because of the end of the 18 month detention period, because we chose clandestinity in order to continue the armed struggle, because we continued the action of the Revolutionary Struggle.
This decision does not intend to terrorize me – because they know they will never break me - but those who will want to choose the armed struggle, the comrades of the anarchist-antiauthoritarian milieu and the militant social groups. This decision proves the imbalance with the 1st trial of the Revolutionary Struggle where for 16 actions of the organization me and Pola Roupa were sentenced to 50 years while in the 2nd trial for one bomb attack with a warning call and no injuries, I was sentenced to life and for the cases of the two expropriation of banks and the armed clash with police in Monastiraki the sentence is a total of 129 years.
The fury of the judges of the 2nd trial becomes more obvious considering it convicted me arbitrarily with the charge of “managing”, something that was rejected in the first trial. This decision will not scare me in any way. I am a lifelong militant of the struggle for Revolution, the subversion of Capital and the State. I willingly give my life for this struggle.
Comrades do not fear them and counter-attack.
The struggle continues until the last breath.
LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE